In 1989 he donated his collection of fossil fish to the University of Guelph, which the university says is one of the largest donations by an individual to a Canadian university.
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While at Melbourne his fields of research were broad encompassing Australian fossil fishes of the Upper Devonian and Cainozoic, physiography, hydrology, petrology and mineralogy of Victoria and economic geology.
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Within the area are four former flagstone quarries, which despite no longer producing the stones are now noted for the excellent preservation of the fossil fish " Osteolepis ".
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The stratigraphically youngest chasmataspid is " Achanarraspis reedi ", described by Lyall Anderson and colleagues from the mid Devonian Achanarras quarry in Caithness, Scotland; a famous fossil fish locality.
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In 1946 a major fossils fish find occurred in Princeton, when hundreds of fossil coelacanths of the Triassic genus " Diplurus " were discovered under Princeton University's Firestone Library.
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Norell's fossil was found in a rock formation with layers of volcanic and sedimentary rock filled with an enormous variety of fossil fish, birds, insects, shrimp and even small mammals.
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Fossil fish such as " Plesiadapis insignis " from these strata also make the area important to the study of early mammalian evolution after the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary ( K T boundary ).
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In 1845 he found remains of Holoptychius and forwarded specimens to Miller, and he continued to send the best of his fossil fish to that geologist, and to other geologists after the death of Miller.
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Fossil mollusca are abundant, and fossil fish are to be found, as well as " Palaeophis ", a sea-snake, and " Puppigerus ", a sea turtle.
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The paleontologist Gavin Young, named the fossil agnathan " Pituriaspis doylei " after the hallucinogenic drug pituri, as he thought he might be hallucinating upon viewing the fossil fish's bizarre form.
